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  1. Complete the sentence about Korean language with the correct year: North Korea abolished Hanja in writing in ______ but continues to teach it in schools.
  2. Complete the sentence about Kimchi with the correct year: The first mention of chili pepper is found in Jibong yuseol, an encyclopedia published in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Bibimbap with the correct year: According to the Hansik Culture Dictionary, its owner Namgung Seong developed a stone bowl in ______ in order to keep bibimbap warm for a loā€¦
  4. Complete the sentence about Bulgogi with the correct year: Merriam-Webster dated the word's appearance in the American English lexicon in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Samgyeopsal with the correct year: The word samgyeopsal only became an entry for the Standard Korean Language Dictionary after ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Samgyeopsal with the correct year: According to a ______ survey by National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, 85% of South Korean adults stated that their favourite slicā€¦
  7. Complete the sentence about Soju with the correct year: In ______, "soju" was included in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
  8. Complete the sentence about Soju with the correct year: Merriam-Webster dated the word's appearance in the American English lexicon to ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Makgeolli with the correct year: In ______, the South Korean ban on brewing with rice was finally lifted, with home brewing again becoming legal only at the beginning of thā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Korean tea with the correct year: Xu Jing, a Song dynasty envoy who visited Goryeo in ______, wrote in the Gaoli tujing that the people of Goryeo were avid tea drinkers andā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Korean tea with the correct year: In ______, King Gojong of the Korean Empire used coffee for the first time.
  12. Complete the sentence about Gochujang with the correct year: The second-oldest documentation of pepper paste is found in the ______ Korean book Collected Prescriptions of Native Korean Medicines.
  13. Complete the sentence about Gochujang with the correct year: Pepper paste is again mentioned in a ______ medical encyclopedia named Compendia of Medical Prescriptions.
  14. Complete the sentence about Gochujang with the correct year: Farm Management, a book from c. ______, discussed the cultivation methods of chili peppers.
  15. Complete the sentence about Kimbap with the correct year: The term gimbap was used in a ______ Korean newspaper article but at the time, the loanword norimaki was used as well.
  16. Complete the sentence about Korean fried chicken with the correct year: The first modern Korean fried chicken franchise, Lims Chicken, was established in ______ in the basement of Shinsegae Departmentā€¦
  17. Complete the sentence about Korean fried chicken with the correct year: Fried chicken was further popularized when Kentucky Fried Chicken opened stores in South Korea in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Hanbok with the correct year: In ______, the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism established Hanbok Day to encourage South Korean citizens to wear the hanbā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about Hanbok with the correct year: Hanbok was again used in an ______ document to distinguish between Korean and Japanese clothing.
  20. Complete the sentence about Ssireum with the correct year: The first modern competition was held in October ______ at Dansungsa theater in Seoul.
  21. Complete the sentence about Ssireum with the correct year: The First Pan Chosun Ssireum Championship was organized in ______ and thereafter professional competitions were held for six consecutive yearā€¦
  22. Complete the sentence about Ssireum with the correct year: Weight classes were introduced in ______ at the 12th National Ssireum Championship.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ssireum with the correct year: In ______, the Korean Ssireum Federation proposed the unification of ssireum into a single left-sided style as the official style to be usedā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about K-pop with the correct year: In ______, South Korea ranked sixth among music markets, led by artists BTS and Blackpink.
  25. Complete the sentence about BTS with the correct year: BTS debuted in ______ under Big Hit Entertainment with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool.
  26. Complete the sentence about Psy with the correct year: Psy released his debut studio album Psy from the Psycho World! in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Psy with the correct year: As part of preparations to take over DI Corporation from his father, Park had originally planned to study business administration at Boston Univeā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Psy with the correct year: Psy was found by South Korean rapper zoPD and featured in the song "ģ¹“ģ‚¬ė…øė°”" from his second album In Stardom Version 2.0 in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Gangnam Style with the correct year: By the end of ______, "Gangnam Style" had topped the music charts of more than 30 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germanā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about Gangnam Style with the correct year: On December 21, ______, "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube video to reach a billion views.
  31. Complete the sentence about Girls' Generation with the correct year: The group's third Korean studio album, The Boys, was the best-selling album of ______ in South Korea.
  32. Complete the sentence about Exo with the correct year: Members Sehun and Chanyeol began promoting as the sub-unit Exo-SC in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Exo with the correct year: Exo-K's eventual leader, Suho, was the first member to join SM Entertainment in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about SM Entertainment with the correct year: In February ______, the company changed its name to SM Entertainment and set up its capital fund.
  35. Complete the sentence about SM Entertainment with the correct year: In ______, SM became the first entertainment company to be listed on KOSDAQ, and established an affiliate company called Fandango Koā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about SM Entertainment with the correct year: In ______, SM became affiliated with Starlight Academy System, a private academy that trained aspiring singers and actors.
  37. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: JYP Entertainment was founded in ______ by South Korean singer-songwriter J.Y.
  38. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: In ______, the company was retitled as JYP Entertainment, named after Park's stage name.
  39. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: In ______, entertainment company SidusHQ introduced the future members of boy band g.o.d to Park, as their producer and mentor.
  40. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: In cooperation with SidusHQ, the company oversaw the formation of g.o.d, which would make their debut appearance on January 13, ___ā€¦
  41. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: On December 27, ______, the company's first boy group was a four-member vocal oriented group, Noel, which failed to attract popularā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about JYP Entertainment with the correct year: In ______, after the boy band g.o.d's group contract with SidusHQ ended, they signed a contract with JYP Entertainment.
  43. Complete the sentence about Hybe Corporation with the correct year: In ______, the company signed a contract with JYP Entertainment to jointly manage the boy group 2AM.
  44. Complete the sentence about Hybe Corporation with the correct year: The group was active until ______, when it was disbanded due to legal actions against one of its members Kim Da-hee.
  45. Complete the sentence about Hybe Corporation with the correct year: In early ______, Big Hit ended their stake relationship with Signal and made a full settlement of the bonds.
  46. Complete the sentence about Korean wave with the correct year: By ______, South Korea's cultural exports surpassed its cultural imports for the first time.
  47. Complete the sentence about Korean wave with the correct year: Following Park's death and the ______ coup d'Ć©tat of December Twelfth, the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan enacted additional restrictioā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Korean wave with the correct year: As a part of the decolonization process in South Korea, imports of all Japanese media were banned in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Parasite with the correct year: Filming ran from May to September ______ and included cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, editor Yang Jin-mo, and composer Jung Jae-il.
  50. Complete the sentence about Parasite with the correct year: Parasite premiered on 21 May ______ at the Cannes Film Festival, where it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or.
  51. Complete the sentence about Bong Joon-ho with the correct year: In ______, Bong enrolled in Yonsei University, majoring in sociology.
  52. Complete the sentence about Park Chan-wook with the correct year: In ______, he gained experience as an assistant director on Yu Yeong-jin's film Kkamdong.
  53. Complete the sentence about Park Chan-wook with the correct year: Park's feature film debut, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream was released in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Oldboy with the correct year: In ______, Oldboy was placed 64th on an Empire list of the top 500 movies of all time.
  55. Complete the sentence about Oldboy with the correct year: In ______, The Guardian ranked it number three among the classics of modern South Korean cinema.
  56. Complete the sentence about Oldboy with the correct year: In ______, businessman Oh Dae-su is arrested for assault and drunkenness, consequently missing his daughter's fourth birthday.
  57. Complete the sentence about Oldboy with the correct year: In North America, the Film opened to a limited release on March 25, ______, 2 years after it released in South Korea.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kim Ki-duk with the correct year: Kim was born on 20 December ______ in Ponghwa, North Kyŏngsang.
  59. Complete the sentence about Kim Ki-duk with the correct year: In ______, he went to Paris to study fine arts, but instead he spent two years working there on the streets as a portrait painter.
  60. Complete the sentence about Kim Ki-duk with the correct year: After returning to South Korea, Kim began his career as a screenwriter and won first prize in a screenplay contest held by the Korean Filmā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Pansori with the correct year: Pansori has been designated as Korea's National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 5 since ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Samulnori with the correct year: The first ever samul nori performance was on February 22, ______, in a small theater in Seoul.
  63. Complete the sentence about Samulnori with the correct year: In ______, Kim Yong-bae brought samul nori to the South Korean National Gugak Center.
  64. Complete the sentence about Buddhism in Korea with the correct year: A ______ government survey indicated that about a quarter of South Koreans identified as Buddhist.
  65. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Korea with the correct year: In ______, Yi Su-gwang, a Korean politician, returned from Beijing carrying several theological books written by Matteo Ricciā€¦
  66. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Korea with the correct year: In ______, King Yeongjo of Joseon officially outlawed Catholicism as an "evil practice," declaring it heretical and strictly baā€¦
  67. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Korea with the correct year: Catholicism was reintroduced in ______ by Yi Seung-hun, and French and Chinese Catholic priests were soon invited by the Koreanā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Korea with the correct year: Sorae Church, which was the first Protestant church in Korea, was established by Seo Sang-ryun on 16 May ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Korea with the correct year: Robert Samuel Maclay and Horace Newton Allen entered Korea one year later in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Seollal with the correct year: During last vestige of Korean Empire reign in ______, celebrating Seollal was banned.
  71. Complete the sentence about Seollal with the correct year: In ______, Korea was officially annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations.
  72. Complete the sentence about Kim Sowol with the correct year: In ______, Kim went to Japan, but he soon returned to Seoul, where he stayed for the next two years attempting to build a career in literatā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Kim Sowol with the correct year: Though his poems continued to appear there, their quality deteriorated and Kim's life descended to habitual drinking and a reported suicideā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Yi Sang with the correct year: Kim Yeon-pil, a father's elder brother who took care of the above growth process, died of cerebral hemorrhage on May 7, ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Yi Sang with the correct year: In ______, Yi had to close the Jebi due to financial difficulties, and he broke up with Geumhong.
  76. Complete the sentence about Kim Hyun-sik with the correct year: Kim Hyun-sik was born in Inhyeon-dong, Seoul, South Korea on January 7, ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Kim Hyun-sik with the correct year: In ______, Kim began to work with Jang-hee Lee on his first album, Spring Summer Fall Winter.
  78. Complete the sentence about Kim Hyun-sik with the correct year: After the restaurant he owned went out of business, Kim returned to music and recorded his second album in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Samsung with the correct year: After Lee died in ______, Samsung was divided into five business groups: Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group, Hansol Group, and JoongAngā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Samsung with the correct year: The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Samsung with the correct year: In ______, Lee founded Cheil Mojik, a textiles company, and built the first plant in Chimsan-dong, Taegu.
  82. Complete the sentence about Hyundai Motor Company with the correct year: In ______, the Pony, the first South Korean car, was released, with styling by Giorgio Giugiaro of Italdesign and powertrain teā€¦
  83. Complete the sentence about LG Corporation with the correct year: Headquartered in the LG Twin Towers building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo District, in Seoul, it was the sixth-largest company in Souā€¦
  84. Complete the sentence about LG Corporation with the correct year: LG Corporation was established as Lak Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in ______ by Koo In-hwoi.
  85. Complete the sentence about LG Corporation with the correct year: Koo In-hwoi led the corporation until his death in ______, at which time, his son Koo Cha-kyung took over.
  86. Complete the sentence about SK Group with the correct year: In ______, the company manufactured Korea's first polyester fiber on company grounds.
  87. Complete the sentence about SK Group with the correct year: In ______, SK then established Sunkyong Oil, beginning a vertical integration strategy to manage production, "From Petroleum to Fibers".
  88. Complete the sentence about SK Group with the correct year: In ______, Sunkyong Corporation received an international trading company license from the Indian government.
  89. Complete the sentence about SK Group with the correct year: In December ______ SK purchased privately run Korea National Oil, making it Korea's fifth largest conglomerate.
  90. Complete the sentence about SK Group with the correct year: In January ______, crude oil was imported for processing to Korea from Yemen's Marib oil field.
  91. Complete the sentence about Kia with the correct year: In ______, Kyungsung Precision Industry changed its name to Kia Industries.
  92. Complete the sentence about Kia with the correct year: The company opened its first integrated automotive assembly plant, the Sohari Plant, in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Kia with the correct year: In ______, the new military dictator Chun Doo-hwan enforced industry consolidation.
  94. Complete the sentence about Kia with the correct year: Kia rejoined the automobile industry in ______, in partnership with American company Ford.
  95. Complete the sentence about POSCO with the correct year: Construction of the initial plant was funded by Japan through the Third South Korea-Japan Ministerial Meeting in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Naver Corporation with the correct year: On August 1, ______, Naver decided to split with Hangame, a corporation with which it had grown together with as NHN Corporation foā€¦
  97. Complete the sentence about Naver Corporation with the correct year: On October 1, ______, the company adopted its current name, Naver Corporation, in order to reflect the change, thus restoring its pā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence about Kakao with the correct year: According to a December ______ App Annie report, Kakao was the world's third top publisher by monthly revenue at Google Play.
  99. Complete the sentence about Kakao with the correct year: On 26 May ______, Kakao Corp. announced that it had decided to merge with Daum Communications, one of Korea's top Internet portals, through a sā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Kakao with the correct year: On 10 March ______, Daum Kakao launched its KakaoTaxi service, which allows users to call a taxi using the KakaoTaxi application.

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